Amazon for Business?

Hades · 13 Jun 2017 at 21:31

I have now received an email inviting me to convert my normal Amazon account to an Amazon Business account. I assume it is because I've recently bought a number of items for such as printer ink, laptop batteries, etc.

I am a personal customer but are there any benefits for me to convert my account to a business one? Would I receive discounted prices, etc? I noticed it would mean prices displayed ex-VAT which would be annoying.

Thanks.

Vanquish-Storm · 13 Jun 2017 at 22:04

I think you can change it to show prices including VAT.

I wouldn't be surprised if your account would need to be verified with a company registration number and / or a VAT number.

You get discounts on bulk purchases - each marketplace seller can set their own discount and bulk buy levels.

pepp77 · 13 Jun 2017 at 22:20

The main issue is you then go from a consumer shopper to a B2B shopper, so rather than being covered by Consumer contracts (formerly distance selling) you are just covered by that company's own Terms of Service.

Regy53 · 13 Jun 2017 at 22:27

nope not worth a thing, i am a business acct and its handy for VAT info but other than that not worth it

Hades · 13 Jun 2017 at 22:35

Thanks.

Vanquish-Storm · 13 Jun 2017 at 22:54

Regy53 said:
nope not worth a thing, i am a business acct and its handy for VAT info but other than that not worth it

Have you not found any bulk discounts yet?

Regy53 · 13 Jun 2017 at 22:55

Vanquish-Storm said:
Have you not found any bulk discounts yet?

nope, nothing worth reporting. I click daily deals a lot too.

Vanquish-Storm · 13 Jun 2017 at 23:39

Regy53 said:
nope, nothing worth reporting. I click daily deals a lot too.

A lot of marketplace sellers are not setup right then.

The idea is if you purchase 5-10 units you get x% off of you buy 11-20 you get y% off and so on.

TacticalFish · 14 Jun 2017 at 10:22

As others have said, handy for VAT (although I still have to manually request a lot of VAT invoices), it also allows you to add PO #'s for orders, which I find handy for reconciling the company credit card.

Vanquish-Storm · 14 Jun 2017 at 10:27

TacticalFish said:
As others have said, handy for VAT (although I still have to manually request a lot of VAT invoices), it also allows you to add PO #'s for orders, which I find handy for reconciling the company credit card.

Once all of the marketplace sellers have setup correctly with their on boarding team (months maybe :/ ) then you should not need to manually request the invoice. If it was up to me they should have ran the program for sellers who are already setup on Amazons VAT system only to avoid this.

Caged · 14 Jun 2017 at 10:30

Amazon Business is good because several people can have access, submit their own orders for approval, and a couple of people in accounts can approve/reject the purchase, and assign PO numbers to each order for simple reconciliation. It's easier than sharing one account, figuring out who bought what, or dealing with expenses claims. I don't think it really tries to be anything else, which is fine.